On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Oliver Smith wrote:
> To: www@??? <www@???>
>
> As I said, I can, technically, see why it's not valid, but I can't see,
> philisophically, why it's mandatorily invalid.
Consider
To: abcd@??? <pqrs@???>
That's confusing isn't it? Remember that
To: abcd@???
*is* valid. I don't know the background to RFC822, but it was written in
the early 80's and I suspect it was trying to pull together a number of
different prior usages. I'm sure if we were starting from scratch today
it would end up very different.
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